[ubuntu-za] Virtualization on Ubuntu

[Quintin van Rooyen]

2009/6/10 Wikus Cornelius <wikusc at gmail.com>

> Greetings,
>
> I want to use some virtualization environment at home to evaluate and
> test differed operating systems (windows and different Linux
> distributions). I have done some googleing on Xen, VirtualBox and Kvm,
> but I would like some advice and recommendations from people with
> experience on the mailing list. My criteria is ease of use, network
> support a must and usb support a plus. I am probably not going to run
> any processing intensive applications. We are using Vmware at work so if
> I can find one that can import Vmware images easily it will be an
> advantage. I have installed Vmware player, but it is a bit limited. I
> will be using Ubuntu for the host OS.
>

At work we use Virtualbox. It supports everything you need. It has network
support, usb and cd/dvd rom support, you can swop harddrives between
machines and has virutualbox addons for some client os's.

It should suit your needs nicely.

Regards.

Q



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> Wikus
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